Director/PDMR Shareholding

Spark Ventures PLC
31 March 2008


SPARK Ventures PLC
31 March 2008

NOTIFICATION OF DIRECTORS STOCK PURCHASES

SPARK Ventures plc ('SPARK' - formerly NewMedia Spark plc) announces that two
directors have today chosen to purchase shares in SPARK by exercising share
options originally granted under the NewMedia SPARK plc 2001 share option
scheme. These share options are over existing ordinary 2.5p shares held by the
NewMedia SPARK Employee Benefit Trust.

Details of the option exercise are as follows:

Name of Director                                    David Potter            Jayesh Patel

Number of options exercised                         250,000                 500,000
Price paid per share                                2.5p                    2.5p
Total amount payable                                £6,250.00               £12,500.00
Percentage of issued shares acquired                0.06%                   0.12%
Number of shares held after exercise                480,000                 1,329,194






For further information:


SPARK Ventures plc                                       020 7851 7777
Andrew Betton, Finance Director & Company Secretary




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